Site work for a water / sewer project in Somerville, Massachusetts. Completed plans call for site work for a water / sewer project.

Required for DCAMM contracts over $150,000, Highway Division contracts over $50,000. The Somerville Water and Sewer Department is responsible for maintaining, repairing and improving the City's 118 miles of water mains, 1,500 fire hydrants and ~15,600 water service connections and meters, ensuring highquality and dependable service. Since 2022, the City of Somerville has been engaged in a comprehensive water meter replacement program aimed at modernizing its water metering infrastructure to improve meter accuracy, efficiency, revenues, and customer service. This replacement program implemented Metron-Farnier Single Jet Cold Water Meters with cellular Advanced Metering registers that include the WaterScope software, Metron's proprietary product. This technology provides real-time data, leak detection, and enhanced customer service capabilities. These features are integral to the City's objectives of improving water management and customer service. Meters range in size from 5/8 to 8; all 3 and larger meters are installed with an inline test provision and have proper inlet and outlet control valves. There are a few large settings that have bypass lines, but not all. There is also a small number of pit set meters, both small and larger sizes. While the metering replacement program is nearly complete, the City requires help with the remaining replacements and any ongoing maintenance, testing, and repair activity to keep all components working at peak efficiency. For this reason, the City needs a Meter Maintenance Contractor (MMC or CONTRACTOR herein) to provide both on-call and scheduled maintenance and installation services of Single Jet Cold Water Meters ranging in size from 5/8 to 8. The selected MMC will supply ongoing services for the testing, repair, right-size, or replacement of any commercial or residential metered account; investigation and repair of meters with low to no signal strength; investigation of stopped or stuck meters; and investigation and/or replacement of defective AMR devices. It is the City's intent to have one MMC provide all services needed. Bidder must be qualified to perform the following work: A. Residential & Light Commercial Meter Replacement: Meters in this category are from 5/8 to 2 in size. This work will consist of meter-to-meter exchanges of existing meters due to being outdated models or relatively new meters with problems stemming from debris, damage, or misuse of the meter with a new water meter and connection to the AMR system. B. Commercial Meter Replacement: This work will consist of meter-to-meter exchanges of existing commercial water meters with a new water meter and connection to the AMR system. C. Residential, Light Commercial, & Commercial Meter Repair or Refurbish: MMC must provide qualified technicians to perform on-site repair, re-test, and recalibration for those meters that have ready parts availability and can provide the City additional years of good service. Any provided parts must be new or newly refurbished; a detailed parts list must be provided. D. Residential & Light Commercial Meter Testing: Since accuracy is critical for metering, meters will be site tested to verify existing meter accuracy. BIDDER must provide sample test documents verifying the capacity to perform this service. E. Commercial Meter Site Testing: Since all commercial meters are relatively new and make up a considerable portion of water and sewer revenues, these meters will be site tested to verify existing meter accuracy. BIDDER must provide sample test documents verifying the capacity to perform this service. F. Meter Nonstandard Work: Some meter settings may require some pipeline or plumbing reconstruction should a replacement meter be required. Any additional work that is beyond the scope of a standard or defined service activity will be timed to the nearest quarter hour and billed at the bid nonstandard rate. G. Emergency or On-call Service: During the term of this work, there may be occasions where the MMC will be contacted and expected to respond to a water meter setting that requires immediate attention. This may be from a broken or frozen water meter, some damage to the meter or water line connected to the meter, or simply a stuck or stopped meter that warrants immediate attention from the City. In these instances, the MMC will be compensated for time, portal-to-portal, at the indicated Bid price. Overall, our objective within the Scope of Work is to keep the water meter settings at the City of Somerville reading 100% correctly, 100% of the time, and all reading on the WaterScope system. To this extent, the MMC may be required to work off-hours or weekends to accommodate City water customers. The MMC must be capable of ensuring that there will be no integration challenges, increased costs, or disruptions to service during this maintenance phase of the project. Supply labor and equipment necessary to perform water meter replacements, repairs, testing, and maintenance as outlined in the project specifications. Estimated Award Date: 01/16/2026 Questions are due: 01/07/2026 by 12PM EST Questions concerning this solicitation must be delivered in writing to: Jordan T. Remy Deputy Chief Procurement Officer Somerville City Hall Procurement & Contracting Services Department 93 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02143 Or emailed to: jremy@somervillema.gov Or faxed to: 617-625-1344